There’s undoubtedly a lot of energy around the idea of social entrepreneurship, but I do wonder if the discussion is too much skewed towards the business and organizational side of things rather than on what we really want to achieve. So I was interested to receive an email from Paola Grenier, who’s doing a PhD on social entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics, who’s thinking of writing an article ‘challenging the dominance of business schools in the development of research and and education into social entrepreneurship’.

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